Contents

Introduction:

The Balls-out Truth About Depression

Amy Ferris

Riding With the Top Down

Beverly Donofrio

Suicide, a Love Story

Mark S. King

Three Girls, Laughing

Beth Bornstein Dunnington

Medication Makes Me Whole

Angela M. Giles Patel

Bye-bye, Crayola

Caroline Leavitt

Death, Depression, and Other Capital D Words

Marika Rosenthal Delan

Colors at the Piano

Linda Joy Myers

The Deal Breaker

Lira Maywood

A Slip of the Noose

Jimmy Camp

A Body of Grief

Zoe FitzGerald Carter

If I Love You, You’ll Leave

Debra LoGuerico DeAngelo

Hello, Catastrophe

Elizabeth Rosner

Unraveling

Hollye Dexter

Letters I Will Never Send

Alexa Rosalsky

Nothing Helps, Except Love . . .

C.O. Moed

Search for the Silver Cup

Betsy Graziani Fasbinder

The Merry-Go-Round

Mark Morgan

Thorazine

Karen Lynch

Learning to Sit Still

Chloe Caldwell

Depression is a Patient Stalker

Ruth Pennebaker

Allies in the Sky

David Lacy

Off With the Fairies

Christine Kehl O’Hagan

Learning To Love My Depression

Sherry Amatenstein

Skirting the Abyss

Barbara Abercrombie

God’s Perfect Child

Patti Linsky

Irish Wake-up Call

Kitty Sheehan

The Dialectics of Suicide

Samantha White

Forty-four Steps

Kathryn Rountree

Upon Being Told to Be True to Myself

Jenna Stone

Viral Goodbyes

Matt Ebert

Someday This Pain May Be Useful

Jennifer Pastiloff

Riding Shotgun

judywhite

Surviving the Spiral

Regina Anavy

A Kind of Quiet Most People Have Forgotten

Pam L. Houston